Confined Space Accidents #4 This page was last updated on  05/06/2010 Two men found dead inside Guilford manhole 7/6/2003 9:30 AM By: Associated Press (WHITSETT) — Sheriff’s deputies and safety regulators want to know how a father and his adult son died inside a manhole in Guilford County. Family of David and Christopher Michael found their bodies yesterday morning at a construction site...

Confined Space Accidents #3 This page was last updated on  05/06/2010 Audrain County Man Dies in Grain Bin Accident Boone County, 1/30/2003  An Audrain County man died yesterday in a farm accident. Boone County deputies say 22-year old Marcus Orth became trapped in a grain bin, and suffocated. Orth had been able to call one of his co-workers, saying he was trapped in the bin. Co-workers on the Boone...

Confined Space Accidents #2 This page was last updated on  05/06/2010   Missaukee farmer killed in silo mishap By Judy Toomey, Staff Writer October 09, 2002  LUCAS — A Missaukee County farmer died Tuesday morning while working in the top of a silo on his Lucas farm. According to Missaukee County Sheriff’s Office reports, David Schutte, 46, was attempting to level corn away from equipment when he was...

Confined Space Accidents #1 This page was last updated on  05/06/2010   UPDATE, Ship Officer Charged in Death Wed Feb 6, 8:51 PM ET TAMPA, Fla. – A ship officer was indicted on misconduct and negligence charges Wednesday in the death of a crewman ordered to clean the ship’s emptied cargo tanks while they were still filled with toxic fumes. Master Gilbert C. Thurston, chief officer...

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The Human Factors Analysis and Classification System (HFACS) was developed by Dr. Scott Shappell and Dr. Doug Wiegmann. It is a human error methodology originally used by the US Air Force to investigate and analyze human factors in aviation. Some of you may recognize HFACS in another form, based on James Reason’s Swiss Cheese model. The HFACS framework describes human error at each of the...